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Kalypso Media: Management-Buy-out beim Tropico-5-Studio

In den letzten Jahren hat Stefan Marcinek die deutsche Entwicklerszene mitgeprägt, nun hat er sein Unternehmen Kalypso Media (Tropico 5, Port Royale 3) verlassen. (Kalypso, Games)

Parrot Disco: Der Papagei bekommt starre Flügel

Copter war gestern: Parrots neue Drohne Disco hat Flügel. Zum Starten wird sie geschüttelt und dann geworfen. (Parrot, Technologie)

Standards organization accepts completion of last row of periodic table

Four new elements await their discoverers’ choice of names.

Just prior to the end of 2015, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC to everyone, including itself) made a momentous discovery: it was accepting the existence of four new chemical elements. Combined, they complete the bottom row of the periodic table.

These days, discovering a new element involves making it yourself. Moderately weighty atoms are accelerated into each other and, in rare cases, fuse to form a single atomic nucleus—which falls back apart again almost instantly. Between the rarity of the formation and the vanishingly small half-life, actually spotting a success is a significant challenge.

Still, evidence that these four elements have been created was building for a number of years. The IUPAC, however, waited to convene a panel of experts to evaluate that evidence. Clearly, the panel found it compelling.

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Alcatel OneTouch launches Pixi 3 8 inch tablet with Windows 10 Mobile (or Android)

Windows 10 Mobile isn’t just for smartphones. Alcatel OneTouch has launched a new 8 inch tablet with a Qualcomm processor and the mobile version of Microsoft’s new operating system. The Alcatel OneTouch Pixi 3 (8) will be available in Europe and Latin America starting in April. Don’t want a Windows 10 Mobile tablet? The company […]

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The Expanse is the best new science fiction series in years

Put simply, this show is your new crack.

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There was a time—a long time—when every new science fiction TV series raised the same question: Is it as good as the first Battlestar Galactica miniseries? And always the answer was no. Until Syfy released the first four episodes of The Expanse, a rewardingly complex new series about interplanetary tensions after humans have colonized the solar system.

Warning: extremely light spoilers ahead.

Based on a series of novels by James S.A. Corey (the pen name for writing team Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), The Expanse is both a mystery and a political thriller. A cold war has been heating up between Mars and planetoid Ceres in the Belt. The militant Belter separatist group OPA is staging protests because the wealthy cities of Mars get all their water from ice miners in the Belt, but those miners are living in decayed, oxygen-starved habitats. Earth's fleet could be deployed to "reduce tensions" at any moment, which would put Mars and Earth at odds too.

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Telekom: Zwei Millionen nutzen Magenta-Eins-Produkte

Die Telekom kann über drei Millionen Magenta-Eins-Kunden in Europa vermelden, davon zwei Millionen in Deutschland. Telekom-Chef van Damme meint, diese Kunden seien loyaler. (Speedport, WLAN)

Lenovo IdeaPad 710S is a 13.3 inch, 2.6 pound laptop coming this summer for $799 and up

The Lenovo IdeaPad 710S may not be the thinnest or lightest laptop Lenovo is launching at CES, and it may not have the most impressive display or a convertible design that lets use use it like a tablet. But this notebook looks like a solid option for folks looking for a compact notebook with a […]

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Garmin releases hardcore Tactix Bravo GPS watch, adds HRM to Fenix 3

The $699 multisport watch packs a lot of GPS power, and tracks golf and rowing.

Garmin is kicking off the year at CES 2016 by focusing on its outdoor line of smartwatches. The company announced the new Tactix Bravo multisport GPS watch and new Fenix 3 HR watches featuring Garmin's Elevate wrist-bound heart rate monitors.

The features of the Tactix Bravo might persuade one to be more of an adventurer, or at least make them jealous of law enforcement types who may find this device useful. It has an all-black design, a scratch-resistant sapphire lens, and a knurled bezel which has a diamond-like carbon coating to protect against scrapes as well. Not only does the all-black look sleek, but it's meant to make the watch as invisible as possible especially in low light. Its display even has a "night vision" mode so users can see it while wearing night vision goggles. You'll be able to break up the black with interchangeable bands, so you can make somewhat of a fashion statement wearing it to the office.

The Tactix Bravo's GPS features alone will be enticing for hardcore hikers, extreme adventurers, Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant—basically anyone who wants to go off the grid and make it back easily and safely. It has a built-in, high-sensitivity GPS as well as an EXO antenna and GLONASS support, both of which help make the GPS faster and more accurate. You can save up to 1,000 waypoints and mark your starting point before heading out so you can find your way back quickly. It also supports dual-position mode, which lets the display show two sets of coordinates at the same time.

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Microsoft: 200 Millionen Geräte laufen mit Windows 10

Microsoft freut sich über 200 Millionen Geräte, die mit Windows 10 laufen. In den vergangenen drei Monaten kamen nochmal 90 Millionen Geräte dazu – diesmal werden aber auch Nicht-PCs mitgezählt. (Windows 10, Microsoft)

Microsoft freut sich über 200 Millionen Geräte, die mit Windows 10 laufen. In den vergangenen drei Monaten kamen nochmal 90 Millionen Geräte dazu - diesmal werden aber auch Nicht-PCs mitgezählt. (Windows 10, Microsoft)

BitTorrent Inc. Wants to Woo Major Brands to Boost Revenue

BitTorrent Inc, the company behind the world’s most popular torrent clients, is seeking an individual to help boost its advertising revenues. A job listing posted in the past few hours reveals the company is looking for a Sales Director to drive a significant part of the company’s revenue while boosting its profile with major brands.

Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

bittorrent-crime As the brains and machinery behind uTorrent and the Mainline BitTorrent clients, BitTorrent Inc. is the market leader in consumer focused, peer-to-peer file-sharing tools.

Combined, these clients enjoy around 170 million active users per month, a massive userbase that’s unrivaled in the marketplace. In total, BitTorrent Inc. serves a cool 200 million adverts to its users every single day.

But despite these impressive numbers, revenues for BitTorrent Inc. remain modest. As previously reported, the company sells its worldwide traffic for just 7 cents per 1,000 views, one of the lowest tiers in the ad industry.

While the situation is complex, one of BitTorrent Inc’s problems is how some view the company as being closely tied to piracy. For many, when people download a pirate movie or album using BitTorrent, that means that somehow BitTorrent Inc is involved, but that has parallels with holding Mozilla to account when people use Firefox for nefarious purposes.

In response, BitTorrent Inc has tried extremely hard to reposition itself not only as a software vendor but also as an artist development and promotion platform. A successful play here could help to boost those low-cent views to something carrying more value. The company hopes that a new appointment will play a part in that.

In a job listing posted a few hours ago, the San Francisco based company reveals it’s searching for a new Sales Director to drive media demand across Western Europe.

Responsible for the company’s publishing network across desktop, mobile and web-based platforms, the successful candidate will be expected to establish and develop relationships across the advertising spectrum and “grow company presence across all geos.”

But perhaps of most interest is the requirement for the individual to put in place a strategy to “optimize revenues” by getting a better return on available advertising space.

Part of that will be achieved by meeting with agencies and trading desks but the underlying strategy here is to attract reputable companies or, as BitTorrent Inc puts it, “drive demand from major brands.”

And when targeting major brands, BitTorrent Inc. wants to go straight to the top.

“Inclusive activities are meeting with all agencies for major holding companies for relevant brands, industry events, trade shows, ad clubs and social participation,” the company explains.

But while branding is an excellent way to get more for a product, it is very likely that the BitTorrent ‘brand’ will have already appeared on advertisers’ radars, and not in a good way either.

Despite the company’s efforts to distance itself from piracy, the entertainment industries are putting significant resources into ensuring that big companies do not pump money into the piracy ecosystem, whether that’s by placing ads on blatant piracy sites or via platforms that help to enable infringement.

And it’s very clear that groups such as the RIAA view BitTorrent Inc. as an enabler of such infringement. Last summer Brad Buckles, Executive Vice President of Anti-Piracy at the RIAA wrote to the company with a plea for it to get serious over piracy.

“The software client applications developed, marketed and distributed by BitTorrent Inc. facilitated approximately 75% of at least 1.6 million torrent based infringements in the United States upon which a notice was sent in 2014,” Buckles wrote.

“[If not endorsing piracy] is indeed your business philosophy, then we believe it is only right and proper for BitTorrent, Inc to take steps to reduce their facilitation of infringement.”

So the company is left with somewhat of a dilemma. Should major brand advertising be secured, that will soon appear in uTorrent alongside infringing downloads being carried out by tens of millions of users. As a result it won’t take long for the entertainment industries to pile pressure on the brands to withdraw.

On the other hand, if BitTorrent Inc implements some kind of anti-piracy system to inspire confidence with the brands, a large portion of its 170 million userbase will get very serious about moving to other platforms. That will drastically reduce both eyeballs and revenue while ensuring that current advertisers reach fewer people than they do at the moment.

There’s a tipping point in there somewhere but either way, it’s clear that whoever takes on the new role at BitTorrent Inc. will have their work cut out to bring on the brands in today’s climate.

Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.